outdo

English

Etymology

out- +‎ do

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈdu/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -uː

Verb

outdo (third-person singular simple present outdoes, present participle outdoing, simple past outdid, past participle outdone)

1. (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

   You've outdone yourself—another personal best!

Synonyms

• (to surpass): to outperform, to outrival

Translations

to go beyond

• Bulgarian: надминавам (nadminavam), превъзхождам (prevǎzhoždam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 超過／超过 (zh) (chāoguò), 勝過／胜过 (zh) (shèngguò)

• Czech: překonat
• Dutch: overtreffen
• Finnish: päihittää
• French: surpasser
• Galician: superar
• German: übertreffen
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐍂𐌰𐌷𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (faurarahnjan)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὑπερβάλλω (huperbállō)

• Hungarian: felülmúl, túltesz, túlszárnyal, lepipál
• Indonesian: melampaui
• Italian: fare meglio
• Japanese: 凌ぐ (しのぐ, shinogu), 打ち勝つ (うちかつ, uchikatsu)
• Latin: superō, praecellō
• Maori: pahika
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} بهتر انجام دادن از کسی دیگر‎
• Portuguese: superar
• Russian: превосходи́ть impf (prevosxodítʹ), превзойти́ pf (prevzojtí), перещеголя́ть pf (pereščegoljátʹ)
• Spanish: exceder, sobrepasar, pasar
• Swedish: överträffa

References

• outdo in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• outdo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• do out